Lower Receiver Question

I recently purchased an upper receiver online. So i need to get the lower a friend of mine told me i would need a pistol permit to buy the lower. Is this true, i rarely have free time due to work and school so when im free the gun stores are usually closed to ask my dealer. So what im asking is if i need a permit to buy the lower or not, cause im 19 so i dont have one.
Thanks
Tom

You don't need a pistol permit for an AR lower as its a long gun.
Just a place to purchase one and an FFL dealer to transfer it through,
most of the time you can do those two steps in one stop.
Plausible to do a private transaction too if you know someone who has one they want to sell.

Lotta dealers and a few private sellers have assembled lowers on hand ready to go.
(check down in the for sale subsection of the forum. There may even be one or two there now)

If you're not after the particular brand someone is working with, then arrangements would need to be made to obtain the brand you desire, but that is just a question of a freindly FFL and fee or a lot of hunting around for a private seller.
(FFL provides licence information to X supplier, X supplier sends receiver to FFL, you go to FFL and pay the fee, fill out a form like you would for any long gun retail purchase, and take your receiver home)

Now just to get it out there, if you've somehow gotten hold of a AR pistol upper, you're going to need more than a permit to obtain a lower complete it as they are illegal here.
(unless of course one obtains a pre~ban registered pistol lower and you have a permit to put it on)

Last edited by Tifosi; 12-03-2011 at 04:07 PM.

If there's no such thing as trolls, how do you explain all the dead unicorns?

You do not need a pistol permit to purchase an AR lower. You just need to pass a NICS background check in order to take possession of it. Also, the dealer may insist that the lower have a fixed stock or a collapsable stock that is pinned in place prior to taking possession of your lower. May sure you have a full grasp of NY's AWB provisions.

Good point on the stock.
I was going under the presumption of a stripped receiver for the most part and the back of the mind thought that an assembled one would already be compliant, which is not neccisarily so regardless of the source its coming from.

If there's no such thing as trolls, how do you explain all the dead unicorns?

you have to be 21 to buy a stripped lower. the batfe sees a stripped lower as "any other firearm" because it can be built into a pistol/rifle/sbr ect. no pistol permit is needed but the individual must be at least 21 and pass a nics check. however, if said lower is a complete lower, ( having stock and lower parts kit installed) it is then considerd a rifle.

21 to buy a lower has nothing to do with NY, that is a federal law, and as the others said, by going back with your father, it would be a straw purchase, and the gun shop should refuse to sell it to you anyways.

To all the people with age between 18 - 20years, 23hrs and 59minutes old...

Uncle Sam can send you to fight in Afganistan. Even might be hurt or killed in those God's forsaken lands but you cannot have a beer or order a lower when you come back home?
How does it make you feel after you risk your life for your country? Are you not responsible enough to have a drink or build a nice hunting AR
but in the tip of your finger at the gunner's turret you have to decide in an instant between who needs to live or die?
Is that a less of a priority in the many and huge changes and challenges a rookie soldier needs to amass in those young still minds?

A state law cannot overwrite a federal law only enhance it.
Anyway we have all these laws because the people as a whole we are stupid and allow it. We worry more about the basketball game or the celebrity show on TV than anything the politicians are doing right under our noses.
In any case is not the end of the world. Just team up with a family member or friend/mentor that can do it legally and go shooting with them. Some people find a nice family experience for the weekend.

For anyone else with this issue. On the last page of the paperwork when you buy a firearm. It can be gifted to you which is what my father did for me. He bought me it as a Christmas present. The dealer we bought it from showed it to us the day we picked it up. Sorry to bring this dead thread back just wanted to give those who have the same issue an answer

We need to put more tin foil in our hats to cut down the amount of rhetoric infiltrating our minds.
And Judging by the election, tin foil was in short supply. We don't need that pesky constitution.
King O' knows whats best for us.

For anyone else with this issue. On the last page of the paperwork when you buy a firearm. It can be gifted to you which is what my father did for me. He bought me it as a Christmas present. The dealer we bought it from showed it to us the day we picked it up. Sorry to bring this dead thread back just wanted to give those who have the same issue an answer

Nice that you got your gun together. I just helped my 19 year old son build his first AR from parts.

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